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For the ArtPhilly founder, collecting has never been about wealth-building or prestige.
During a crowded week of fairs, NADA’s strongest booths found momentum in intimate scale, accessible pricing and dedicated presentations of...
The triangular-cut blue-green stone has a color so improbable that, as the Gemological Institute of America notes in its materials, some might assume...
Alexandr Wang says Meta’s compute power and ambitious research culture, not just massive offers, drew elite A.I. researchers from rivals.
Perhaps due to the convergence of multiple biennials and general market recalibration, buyers this year seem more attuned to artists with...
"Goodman played such a crucial role in shaping the landscape of contemporary art today, so we felt it was important to present her collection in a way...
This French resort town is home to an array of five-star accommodations, but these are the very best.
Leadership expert Nik Kinley examines the organizational risks emerging from the corporate rush to fund A.I. He argues that layoffs tied to A.I....
Whether you want pancakes in Brooklyn or omelets downtown, these breakfast spots are built for lingering outdoors.
The OpenAI trial reveals conflicting accounts as Altman says Musk pursued dominance, while Musk argues the company abandoned its nonprofit mission.
The Brooklyn Museum's senior curator of fashion and material culture Matthew Yokobosky explains how treating fashion as art can reveal the...
A $100 million donation from the Bezos Family Foundation, founded by Jeff Bezos' parents, will create an early childhood endowment in New York City...
A new wave of authors is mining the territory between brilliance and ugliness to produce some of the most adventurous and emotionally unsparing...
Beyond the headline Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon, the sale will feature notable lots from F.P. Journe, Greubel Forsey, Audemars Piguet, Cartier...
The move marks a personal shift from collecting as stewardship to collecting as civic support, with the sale of major works by Joan Mitchell, Kenneth...
This multicultural city is famous as a destination for soccer obsessives. Now that it’s officially hosting a World Cup game for the first time,...
The fair's third and final edition opened at the Estonian House with intimate and beautifully idiosyncratic displays of mythic objects, speculative...
Chef Daniel Patterson is adding a California-focused fine dining experience to Melrose Avenue, and New York City’s Bad Roman is bringing its...
As the 2026 FIFA World Cup and LA28 Olympics approach amid political polarization and cultural fragmentation, Chris Braden, who has led strategic...
The 750S's lack of sensible applications is the entire point of this track-beast-turned-road-car.
Testimony from OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever sheds new light on OpenAI’s 2023 leadership crisis amid Elon Musk’s...
More and more, the real competition between major auction houses involves securing single-owner consignments before strategically structuring the...
The White House delegation includes leaders from tech, finance and manufacturing as Washington seeks closer economic talks with Beijing.
Zal.ai CEO Kayvon Touran and organizational leadership expert Ben Dattner examine the rapidly expanding use of A.I. in employee monitoring,...
For 12 days on the Croisette, the world’s biggest stars turned the Cannes red carpet into a showcase for high fashion and old-school glamour.
He remains convinced of the unique, imaginative and generative power of painting, which he believes no new technology will ever replace.
This fall, Sarah Sze's 'Wave' will be installed in the Barclays Center atrium, followed by large-scale paintings by Rashid Johnson and Mark Bradford.
From a striped cotton sweater and leather thong sandals to a linen scarf and poplin dress, here's what we're loving and coveting right now.
A great admirer of Matisse and Cézanne, this artist seemed to reinvent both.
Rex Reed, fearless film critic who elevated the celebrity interview, dies at 87.
As the city embarks once again upon its springtime marathon of fairs and marquee auctions, galleries across Chelsea, Tribeca, the Lower East Side and...
At Carnegie Mellon, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells graduates to embrace A.I. despite job fears and highlights new opportunities.
Again and again, the works return to what is ancient, universal and enduring: symbols, cosmologies and archetypes that precede cultural, national and...
As always, the company's annual gala drew a glittering constellation of celebrities, philanthropists and arts advocates.
From Metro-North-accessible municipal courses to a Tillinghast original on the Delaware, here's where to play this spring without the country-club...
Art advisor Jennifer Findley of JFiN Collective considers how lighting, spatial choreography and archival material are increasingly defining what an...
Trilateral Research’s Amelia Williams examines the gap between enterprise A.I. adoption and the quality of the data powering those systems. As...
Billionaire Darla Moore, who grew up in Lake City before building a Wall Street fortune, has invested millions in transforming her hometown into a...
The tasting that established California as a serious wine region still shapes how Napa—and the broader New World—understands itself today.
The Arts Foundation director Mary Jane Edwards makes the case that trust-based, unrestricted funding for artists is no longer an idealistic notion but...
Companies are spending heavily on A.I. tokens, but ServiceNow’s Chris Bedi says true ROI comes from efficiency gains, not raw usage metrics.
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen grabs attention with an unsolicited bid to acquire eBay and then selling personal collectibles on eBay to fund the deal. But...
The author of the newly released novel, Good News, shares the fiction and nonfiction titles that carried her through her own uncertainty—and just...
Esther Wojcicki shares her Mother’s Day routine, family life and the parenting approach behind her daughters’ success.
Claus von Bülow invested in a Broadway play about a man who murders his rich wife for her inheritance. At the time, nobody found this particularly...
Amid protests, geopolitical tensions and the contradictions of the Biennale’s own structure, the most compelling pavilions leaned into ancestral...
While post-quantum security standards and technical solutions are rapidly advancing, Quantus’ Chris Smith argues that Bitcoin’s network still...
Forget the rental and the Saturday 7 a.m. Avis line. Public transport covers every hike worth doing this spring—and the Hudson Valley is having a...
The exhibition pairs the artist's direct response to composer Isang Yun's biography with her work inspired by Sol LeWitt, placing two very different...
This vibrant agricultural region plays a big role in Melbourne’s world-class culinary scene, and has developed into a charming wine country within...